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In WWTF’s 2022 Information and Communication Technology call, TWO out of nine winning projects (from TU Wien) were submitted by researchers from our computer graphics research unit.

The call was open to researchers from universities and non-university institutions in Vienna and Lower Austria with a funding range per project of 400,000 EUR – 880,000 EUR. The competition was extremely high: From the 67 submitted short proposals, 26 have been invited to the next stage to submit a full proposal. The funding volume for the nine winning projects amounts to over 6,000,000 EUR.

Dear friends & colleagues,

This year is a special year!

For the first time our annual X-Mas card comes to you digitally.

We send you our festive greetings.

A very merry Christmas to you all!

Your Computer Graphics Team,
Eduard Gröller
Renata Raidou
Manuela Waldner
Michael Wimmer

During the Advance AEC Autumn School 2022 PhD Poster Session and Presentation hosted by the Cluster of Excellence IntCDC | University of Stuttgart.

Briefly described, this research, being done under supervision of Prof. Michael Wimmer and

ILW Förderpreis 2022

Der gemeinsame Fachbereich Informatik in den Lebenswissenschaften der Gesellschaft für Informatik und der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie vergibt den ILW Förderpreis 2022 für die beste Masterarbeit (Studienabschlussarbeit) aus dem Kontext: Informatik in den Lebenswissenschaften
Dazu gehören insbesondere Arbeiten aus den Bereichen Bioinformatik, Umweltinformatik und Medizinische Informatik.
Der Preis ist mit 1000 € dotiert.

We are happy to announce two recent awards at Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine (EG VCBM) 2022:

1) A Honorable Full Paper Mention for the work "MuSIC: Multi-Sequential Interactive Co-Registration for Cancer Imaging Data based on Segmentation Masks" by Tanja Eichner, Eric Mörth, Kari Wagner-Larsen, Njål Lura, Ingfrid Haldorsen, Eduard Gröller, Stefan Bruckner, Noeska Smit

Hervorragende Ergebnisse durch institutsübergreifende Kooperationen

Theresa Neubauer entwickelte eine neue Bild-Segmentierungsmethode von Tumoren, die maschinelles Lernen (Künstliche Intelligenz) verwendet, um komplexe Bildmerkmale und Zusammenhänge zwischen den Modalitäten zu lernen und somit den Tumor effizienter und präziser segmentieren zu können.

Wolfgang Straßer Award (Best Paper)

1. Software Rasterization of 2 Billion Points in Real Time
   Makus Schütz, Bernhard Kerbl, Michael Wimmer

Congratulations!!

Abstract and Paper (link)

The EuroVis Young Researcher Award is given each year to one young researcher in the field who has already made a significant contribution to visualization in general and more specifically to the European visualization community (e.g., through outstanding scientific contributions to the EuroVis conference). The intent of this award is to recognize people early on in their career who have already made a notable contribution and are likely to make more.

The EuroVis Best PhD Dissertation Award recognizes outstanding dissertations in academic research and development over topics relevant to visualization. The intent of this award is to recognize excellent young researchers in their early career and to highlight visualization research.

In recognition of his leadership and outstanding contributions in visualization, our own Professor Helwig Hauser is being awarded an Honorary Doctorate at the Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg in Germany on June 10, 2022.

Helwig studied at the TU Wien, where he received his PhD and Habilitation. He was Scientific Director of the VRVis Research Center in Vienna, until he joined the University of Bergen in 2007 to build up the visualization research environment here.